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New FedRAMP Program: Not Half-Baked but Not Cooked Through

December 9, 2011
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New FedRAMP Program: Not Half-Baked but Not Cooked Through

The long wait for a key Federal cloud computing program is over with the launch today of FedRAMP. FedRAMP will help Federal Agency managers to adopt cost-saving and service improving cloud computing solutions. For over two years the Federal government’s “cloud first” policy has floundered. Government executives and managers moved cautiously on adoption concerned...
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Old Saint NIST: Ho Ho Hold on, what’s this?

December 14, 2009
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Every once in a while an opportunity presents itself to affect some real change in federal information security practice.  Now is such a time.  A slew of new NIST documents are being released between now and April.  These are the core NIST documents that describe how to satisfy FISMA. They include NIST SPs 800-30 Revision...
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